Museum Hours, 11:00-4:00

May open Sat/Sun; June/Jul/Aug open Wed thru Sun; Sept/Oct open Sat/Sun. Closed all federal holidays.

Guided outdoor battlefield tours (1 hour) are scheduled the 2nd Sunday of the month May through October at 12:00 and 3:00. Tour included with Museum admission.  

Archaeologist Brad Lepper will be presenting “The Newark Earthworks: One of the Worlds Ancient Wonders” on Sunday August 10 at 1:30 at the Fort Recovery Museum. The presentation is free. 

NEWARK EARTHWORKS

The Newark Earthworks are part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built by ancient American Indians between AD 1 to AD 400, the Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks were part cathedral, part astronomical observatory. You can visit these architectural wonders in the charming cities of Newark and Heath, Ohio, stand where these brilliant builders stood, and feel the wisdom they wrote into the land. 

BRAD LEPPER

Brad Lepper is the Senior Archeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. His research has encompassed more than 14,000 years of Ohio’s Indigenous history but has been focused on the monumental earthworks of the Hopewell culture. Eight of their most magnificent and best-preserved earthworks, including Newark’s Great Circle and Octagon Earthworks, have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. He is the principal author of Ohio Archaeology: an illustrated chronicle of Ohio's ancient American Indian cultures, published in 2005 by Orange Frazer Press and now out of print. This book received the Society for American Archaeology's Public Audience Book Award in 2007.

Guided outdoor battlefield tours (1 hour) are scheduled the 2nd Sunday of the month May through October at 12:00 and 3:00. Tour included with Museum admission.  

Museum open free to the public, compliments of the Fort Street Car Classics Car Club

Guided outdoor battlefield tours (1 hour) are scheduled the 2nd Sunday of the month May through October at 12:00 and 3:00. Tour included with Museum admission.  

This year's theme is "Merry & Sweet". Doors open at 5:00 pm.  Fort Recovery Elementary / Middle School Auditeria. $10 Donation/Ticket. Sponsored by Fort Recovery Historical Society and Project Recovery. For more information, see the One of A Kind Facebook page

Horse-drawn trolley rides provided by the Fort Recovery Merchants and managed by the Fort Recovery Historical Society.